Question

"the story began badly", said the smaller of the small girls.
(change to indrect speech)​

Answer 1

Question:

• "the story began badly", said the smaller of the small girls.

What to do?:

• Turn this sentence into Indirect speech.

Answer:

• The smaller of the small girls told that the story began badly.

Some information to know:-

Defination of direct & indirect speech:-

☞Direct speech is what the speaker actually says.

☞Indirect speech is reporting it from the narrator's point of view.

Remember:-

✯The reporting verb is usually in the past tense.

✯In the reported speech words denoting first person (I, my,me, mine, myself, we, our, us, ours, ourselves) change according to the subject & words denoting second person (you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves) change according to the object.

✯Demonstrators in the reported speech change, e.g. ‘this’ into ‘that’ ; ‘now into then’ ; ‘here’ into ‘there’ ; ‘tomorrow’ into ‘the next day’ ; ‘Yesterday’ into ‘the previous day’. Then is usually dropped.

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